NEW TRUK STOP HOTEL & TRUK LAGGON DIVE CENTER'S WEB SITE...Your tech diving experts...Your facility with HELIUM...TRIMIX...
See below some excerpts from their new HOME PAGE...
GD
Part of the NEW HOME
page...click on the image and go
direct to Truk Lagoon Dive Center
http://www.dive-truklagoon.com/main.php
The Truk Stop Hotel &
Dive Center is a PADI Resort Facility offering great
accommodations plus an excellent, full service dive center for both
the recreational and technical diver.
Truk Stop Hotel inventory of rooms include 2 apartments, 4 suites,
6 deluxe ocean view rooms, and 10 standard rooms. The apartments
are air conditioned and fully furnished with kitchenette. All
suites and rooms are air conditioned, have a balcony, private bath
and furnished with a refrigerator plus TV/DVD player.
LOCAL TIME: 03:20:58 pm | May. 05, 2008
The Truk Lagoon
Dive Center offers up to 4 dives a day (wreck, reef,
shark, night), and our private dock, dive lockers, rinse tanks and
shower make diving with us easy and convenient. We have Bauer
Compressors and use a Haskel Pump for blending Nitrox and Trimix,
and our expatriate PADI certified professional dive staffs take
care of the technical and recreational diver with equal care and
consideration.
Our Hotel
Restaurant serves international, western style and
local food daily from 6:00am till 10:00pm and offers inside dining
in air conditioned, smoke free comfort or outside on our patio
right next to the world famous Truk Lagoon. Enjoy our Wi-Fi
broadband internet connection in the
restaurant or on the patio – for FREE!
© Gunther Deichmann - the view
from your room Balcony at night.
http://www.dive-truklagoon.com/main.php
The Hard Wreck Café &
Bar is the favorite hangout for resident expatriates,
the traveling businessman, island visitors and local residents and
is the place to enjoy a friendly game of pool, your favorite
beverage, karaoke with friends, or just rest up for your next dive
or business meeting.
Other services available through the hotel include a relaxing,
stress busting massage at The Body Shop,
fresh breads, cakes and desserts from our Bakery, handicrafts &
souvenirs from our Gift Shop, u-drives from our Car Rental fleet,
and business services at our well equipped Conference
Facilities.
Did You Know...? Dinosaurs dung...& three DUGONGS spotted at the HOUSE REEF at Club Paradise last week...Dive with Dugong Dive Center
DUGONGS at THE HOUSE REEF ...
CLUB PARADISE PALAWAN.
©
Courtesy of Dugong Dive Center in Palawan, Philippines
click the image or the link below to visit the website
@
http://www.dugongdivecenter.com/
I
have just received this report from Dirk Fahrenbach, yes three
(3)
DUGONGS
right at the House reef at Club Paradise grazing the seaweed
bed.
This is the only place in the Philippines where you can observe
these amazing and gentle creatures in the wild, the area is well
protected by a conservation Park.
Another
article but not related to our Dugong sighting is that of a Auction
where some fossilized Dinosaurs dung has been sold for some US$
1000.00 very interesting reading...
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Dino
dung snapped up at auction
Jurassic-era coprolite, or fossilised dinosaur dung
Two pieces of dinosaur dung have been sold at auction for $960
(£486) at an auction house in New York.
The fossilised dung, which resembles rock on the outside, and a
colourful mineral inside, is 130 million years old, from the
Jurassic period.
Auctioneers Bonhams of New York said it sold for twice the expected
price.
The buyer is reported to be Steve Tsengas, the 71-year-old owner of
a company that sells products to treat pet animal waste in
Ohio.
Marketing
tool...
for the full story click the link
below...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7377982.stm